Amnesia

To all those who continue to return or who cannot leave.

I get

So very forgetful

When I hear your lovely voice

Your words, an aphrodisiac

Cloud my mind like the Warm Vanilla Sugar

I put on just for you

I can’t remember loving

Anyone but you

I’m blanking on the times

That your words hissed

Like tear gas escaping a grenade

I don’t remember why I thought I was right

Or all the warnings my friends gave me

Their concerns evaporate from my thoughts

Like rain on a blazing sidewalk

I even started to forget

Why I started to write this poem

Oh, but how could I forget

The way I’d get

When you said “I love you”

The way I’d melt like MnMs in a hot car, late July

When you said I was beautiful

How I was your best friend

The way you’d say that you were sorry

That you meant it

That you wouldn’t lose your temper

And how you meant no harm

But somehow

I was always

Still wrong

My friends make you uncomfortable

They stay much too late

They hug too much

They give you bad vibes

And now

I don’t remember

The 10 signs

Of an abusive relationship

That more than a few of my friends
Showed me when my mind

Was unclouded by your words

All I want is to make you happy

To make your voice all sweet and mellow again

For my friends to see how kind you are

For them to be impressed with how in love we are

And this cycle repeated

Every day

Like “The Fifty First Dates”

I woke up clueless

Happy to go about living in a fantasy

Until my friends

The ones he didn’t like

Helped me remember what I had forgotten

When amnesia held my heart

And have the strength to recall

Who I used to be before I forgot it all

Author's Note

a work in progress

Reviews

[KCthelastboyscout]

Strong encouraging message.we are all blind when it comes to love.good friends like you describe, help you see where you can't or refuse to.

[Unspoken poet]

So very well written, such emotions through out as well. This is very good.

[Farhan Shaikh]

Amazing verses.. so good to come across your stuff

[Rachel Richardson]

Thank you very much. I just wrote this one this morning.